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Latest News

2025-06-23: Kit's paper proposing the first subexponential quantum algorithm for the semidirect discrete logarithm problem published at PQCrypto 2024 receives the best 2024 PhD student paper award at the department. See:  ePrint,  DoI,  Slides,  Video

2025-06-05: Our paper on designing a lightweight DoS-resilient Bitcoin mempool receives the best paper award at IEEE ICBC 2025. See:  ePrint,  Code,  Dataset,  Slides,  ICBC Webpage

2025-06-01: Our paper on minoritised ethnic people's privacy concerns about essential online services is accepted to SOUPS 2025. See:  ePrint,  Accepted Papers

Older:  News archive

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Selected Recent Publications

[BAS25] Hina Binte Haq, Syed Taha Ali and Siamak F. Shahandashti. "Cuckoo's Nest: An Ultra-Lightweight DoS-Resilient Bitcoin Mempool". ICBC 2025 (to appear).
 ePrint |  Code |  Dataset |  Slides

[CBS24] Ali Cherry, Konstantinos Barmpis and Siamak F. Shahandashti. "The Emperor is Now Clothed: A Secure Governance Framework for Web User Authentication through Password Managers". ICICS 2024, LNCS 15057: 233–252, Springer, 2024.
 ePrint |  DoI |  Code |  BibTeX

[BKPS24] Christopher Battarbee, Delaram Kahrobaei, Ludovic Perret, and Siamak F. Shahandashti. "A Subexponential Quantum Algorithm for the Semdirect Discrete Logarithm Problem". PQCrypto 2024, LNCS 14771: 202–226, 2024.
 ePrint |  DoI |  Slides |  Video |  BibTeX

 Full Publication List

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Selected Funded Projects (current)

PRIME: Protecting Minority Ethnic Communities Online
PHAWM: Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies

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Selected Academic Service

Program Committee (current):

University Service (current):
 Co-Chair, Physical Sciences Ethics Committee
 Member, Information Security Board
 Member, Academic Ethics Compliance Committee

Departmental Service (selected, current):
 Lead, Cyber Security and Privacy Research Group
 Deputy Chair, Graduate School Board
 Programme Lead, MSc Cyber Security

 Full Academic Service List

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Student Supervision

Current Research Students:
Charles Dodd (with  Pooya Farshim)
Najla Aldaraani (with  Helen Petrie)
Ibtihal Alotaibi (with  Helen Petrie)

 Full Student Supervision List (and Information for Prospective Students)

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Teaching

Current Module: Cryptography Theory and Practice (  CTAP-H /  CTAP-M )

 Full Teaching List

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